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you want me to buy a tire company in france? >> a u.s. ceo titan. >> titan. >> the city of titan tires who was looking potentially or was asked to look at a factory in france. >> and he said -- >> not only -- >> they talk for three hours and then they take an hour for lunch and an hour for a break and they're highly compensated. and the french said that's the way it works here. >> that's what he said they said. he said when they approached him he knew -- >> i do sort of, loving paris and loving rome it's like, well i live in paris. i don't want -- three hours is a good -- that's a good number for me. and then i think about us. how long is our show? >> three hours. >> that's right. >> we can talk for three hours. >> do you want to work -- if you're in italy do you want to work longer than three hours if you're looking at the bay of salerno outside of naples, do you want to -- >> do you want to hear something from the ceo yesterday? >> i do. >> we have a sound bite? >> we have a sound bite from the ceo of titan. listen in to what he told ma
you want me to buy a tire company in france? >> a u.s. ceo titan. >> titan. >> the city of titan tires who was looking potentially or was asked to look at a factory in france. >> and he said -- >> not only -- >> they talk for three hours and then they take an hour for lunch and an hour for a break and they're highly compensated. and the french said that's the way it works here. >> that's what he said they said. he said when they approached him he knew...
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the france, and the cac in france and the dax in germany both up by better than 1% on the trading there. and we go from berkshire hathaway and heinz to american airlines and usair. you've watched what's been happening, the mood taking off over the last week. it was a topic that richard bernstein asked goldman sachs ceo lloyd blankfein about when he joined us last month. >> is it possible with these clean balance sheets and fast growth amongst smaller companies we can see an m&a wave coming in the next couple years? this vaeil of uncertainty get removed? >> not only could we, i'll go further and say we should. the conditions are quite right for it. in fact i'd say it's kind of, i can't really explain why it hasn't come up yet. i'll add to it the low level of interest rates. the fact that very low level of interest rates. the fact that industries are consolidating. a lot of opportunities overseas. and i have to tell you, everybody in his own industry tracks a lot of stuff. we track m&a as a percentage of gdp. it's had a much lower level than we should be at this part of the cycle, this pa
the france, and the cac in france and the dax in germany both up by better than 1% on the trading there. and we go from berkshire hathaway and heinz to american airlines and usair. you've watched what's been happening, the mood taking off over the last week. it was a topic that richard bernstein asked goldman sachs ceo lloyd blankfein about when he joined us last month. >> is it possible with these clean balance sheets and fast growth amongst smaller companies we can see an m&a wave...
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said he thinks the franc are overvalued, but they're going to maintain the 170. effectively, no one saw that statement as meig it's a no go when it comes to using currently as a policy tool. >> pay by tweet, that is the question. why american express buying a new xbox or even a gift card will soon be as simple as a hashtag. but first, it's fat tuesday. today's festivities kick off with the zulu parade. but, of course, it is mardi gras around this table all the time. streaming charts! they're totally customizable and they let you visualize what might happen next. that's genius! we knew you needed a platform that could really help you elevate your trading. so we built it. chances of making this? it's a lot easier to find out if a trade is potentially profitable. just use our trade & probability calculator and there it is. for all the reasons you trade options - from income to risk management to diversification - you'll have the tools to get it done. strategies. chains. positions. we put 'em all on one screen! could we make placing a trade any easier? mmmm...could w
said he thinks the franc are overvalued, but they're going to maintain the 170. effectively, no one saw that statement as meig it's a no go when it comes to using currently as a policy tool. >> pay by tweet, that is the question. why american express buying a new xbox or even a gift card will soon be as simple as a hashtag. but first, it's fat tuesday. today's festivities kick off with the zulu parade. but, of course, it is mardi gras around this table all the time. streaming charts!...
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we can't even get a full point move in france, becky, for us. look at that. you don't see that often. and then germany down about 14 points. >> among the stories that we are following this morning, we've been doing a little bit of whale watching. the 13 releases last night, the filings by investors that have to reveal their stock purchases and sales. several interesting stories to tell you about. we start with apple. david einhorn increasing this stake in the company by 45% to 1.6 million shares. also buying apple call options. in the meantime dan loeb sold his entire stake in apple. loeb's third point also took a new stake in herbalife. the call of the morning. he's got carl icahn calling in a little later this afternoon on the fast money halftime report. carl icahn actually showing up with a nearly 13% stake in herbalife. you may recall that fight between carl icahn and bill ackman last month on cnbc. ackman gave a statement to cnbc earlier defending his short position in herbalife. he said, we invest based on careful analysis of the facts, after 18 months
we can't even get a full point move in france, becky, for us. look at that. you don't see that often. and then germany down about 14 points. >> among the stories that we are following this morning, we've been doing a little bit of whale watching. the 13 releases last night, the filings by investors that have to reveal their stock purchases and sales. several interesting stories to tell you about. we start with apple. david einhorn increasing this stake in the company by 45% to 1.6 million...
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in france and that is the story. what happened in italy, which we'll be talking about all morning long along with the sequester. making headlines, more americans fell behind on their auto loan payments in the last three months of 2012. transunion, the credit reporting company says the rate of auto rate payments at least 60 days overdue climbed to 0.4% in the quarter. that remains, though, at the lowest level since transunion began keeping records way back in 1999. >> let's get to the national forecast alex wallace. >> good morning to you, guys. it's snow, snow, more snow. some of the same areas that were impacted last week dealing with it now across the plain states and the midwest. wichita, still snow there for you. in fact, you've picked up about 7 inches and we're still dealing with the snow. more to do with it as we work our way across missouri. and up around chicago. we'll eventually start off as a bit of rain. here is today's forecast. snow across the plains in the midwest. working on off towards the northeast
in france and that is the story. what happened in italy, which we'll be talking about all morning long along with the sequester. making headlines, more americans fell behind on their auto loan payments in the last three months of 2012. transunion, the credit reporting company says the rate of auto rate payments at least 60 days overdue climbed to 0.4% in the quarter. that remains, though, at the lowest level since transunion began keeping records way back in 1999. >> let's get to the...
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. >> what's -- i mean talking about what's happening in france right now is a totally different issue i guess. let's talk about what you're here to talk about. this is not the first time. there are some activist players in energy right now that -- who's the gentleman we had on dinacar. >> recently we have seen a lot of hedge fund active hedge fund committing stakes in energy, oil and gas companies, seems that this year there will be a lot of activity in the sector and i think it might have to kick up a wave in the oil and gas industry. >> almost been too successful with natural gas. because it's nice to find a lot of it, but when it used to be $8 and now it's $2, you're almost a victim of your own success, aren't you? >> this may be an issue, it's why maybe if you cannot focus so much on organic growth. the only way for companies to will be to go out and look for candidates. therefore i believe there will be a lot of acquisition in the oil and gas. >> it's also, $3, or $3.25 now. it makes it hard to gauge what other energies really have become competitive with that. you know, when wil
. >> what's -- i mean talking about what's happening in france right now is a totally different issue i guess. let's talk about what you're here to talk about. this is not the first time. there are some activist players in energy right now that -- who's the gentleman we had on dinacar. >> recently we have seen a lot of hedge fund active hedge fund committing stakes in energy, oil and gas companies, seems that this year there will be a lot of activity in the sector and i think it...
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that's following the trade in asia been and this morning in europe, france is up by about 1.3%. in germany, the dax is up by over 2%. in asia overnight, you can see that there were some green arrows. the nikkei was up by 2.4%. modest gains in shanghai and in hang seng. oil prices as we've been talking about have been coming back down. this morning, they're up by 81 cents, but still below $94. if that is the case, if that continues, perhaps it will lend some much needed help at the pump where prices continue to climb. the ten-year note is rating right now at a yield of 1.969%. the dollar this morning, after seeing some gains last week, it's down against the euro this morning at 1.3271. it is up against the yen once again. 93.76. and there is a lot of speculation about who is going to be the next bank of japan head. the leading candidate at this point is a man who is seen to be a big dove, someone who really puts some extra lending so that perhaps the yen would continue to rise pep talked -- or would continue to drop. he talked about how the yen has been at too high levels in the
that's following the trade in asia been and this morning in europe, france is up by about 1.3%. in germany, the dax is up by over 2%. in asia overnight, you can see that there were some green arrows. the nikkei was up by 2.4%. modest gains in shanghai and in hang seng. oil prices as we've been talking about have been coming back down. this morning, they're up by 81 cents, but still below $94. if that is the case, if that continues, perhaps it will lend some much needed help at the pump where...
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focused around italy, you can see the best performer of those three markets in the green and the cac in france up by 8.5%. markets rebounding with fed chairman bernanke defending the fed. and joining us is head of regulatory global affairs and former new york bank executive vice president and bob dahl, chief executive strategist at investment management. we spoke with steve a little earlier what bernanke was saying. it seems to have undone a lot of what we were expecting when you heard from a lot of rebel rousers. >> remember the minutes are not the views of the committee, different views of factions of members. when the chairman goes for humphrey hawkins he's speaking with one voice for the committee as a whole. one message. you have seen this two months in a row the markets were focusing on minority views. >> non-voting. >> even if there were voters and they had reservations about it, those were the views the markets were focused on and you had sell-offs right after the minutes were out. the message from the committee and you saw this a few weeks ago and the chairman's speech yesterday, when
focused around italy, you can see the best performer of those three markets in the green and the cac in france up by 8.5%. markets rebounding with fed chairman bernanke defending the fed. and joining us is head of regulatory global affairs and former new york bank executive vice president and bob dahl, chief executive strategist at investment management. we spoke with steve a little earlier what bernanke was saying. it seems to have undone a lot of what we were expecting when you heard from a...
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the cac 40 roughly the same amount as france that in particular was a weak spot. the ftse 100 down by 1.7%. a pretty big move for this index. nevertheless, spain went to auction. managed to raise more than it had targeted in terms of three bonds, including a ten-year. so you're seeing, in fact, green on the board when it comes to the bond yields. it is not necessarily a sovereign bond driven move. this seems to be one more driven by growth worries coming out of the eu. take a quick look at the damage that's brought in terms of the currency board. the euro over here, there we go, dooits it's down about 0.8%. as for sterling that's also weaker, but just a little bit. the dollar did strengthen significantly after the fed yesterday. everyone is saying it's an overreaction to the fed minutes. we know that what they'ring god is conditions don't stay put. >>> back over here, citi's chairman is not seeking a break-up of the bank. a story in today's wall street journal says michael o'neill was among those encouraging investors not to break up the bank. he is backing abroad
the cac 40 roughly the same amount as france that in particular was a weak spot. the ftse 100 down by 1.7%. a pretty big move for this index. nevertheless, spain went to auction. managed to raise more than it had targeted in terms of three bonds, including a ten-year. so you're seeing, in fact, green on the board when it comes to the bond yields. it is not necessarily a sovereign bond driven move. this seems to be one more driven by growth worries coming out of the eu. take a quick look at the...